Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes: Studies in Musical Semantics
by Constantin Floros
2021-07-20 18:27:58
Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes: Studies in Musical Semantics
by Constantin Floros
2021-07-20 18:27:58
In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the , as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived music, b...
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In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the <>, as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held on to traditional forms, and both rejected program music. To find an answer to this question, part I tries to elucidate Brahms’ relation to Bruckner in its biographic, historical, artistic and art-theoretical aspects. At the center of the second part, whose subject is Brahms’ early work, is the question whether Brahms was indeed an autonomously working composer. The topic of the third part is a taboo of Bruckner research: Bruckner’s relation to program music.
<th century), Floros gains convincing interpretations.>>
(Friedrich Heller about the German edition of the book)
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